Carpet-cleaning machine



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. M. GESSLBR & J. MOAFBE.

CARPET CLEANING MACHINE.

lgatented Nov. 10, 1885,

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CARPET CLEANING MACHINE.

- Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

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JOHN M. GESSLER AND JOHN MOAFEE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-CLEANING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,107, dated November 10,1885.

Application filed November 17, 1884. Serial No. 148,126. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN M. GESSLER and J oHN MCAFEE, citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Carpet-Cleaning Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relatesto that class of carpetcleaning machines in which the carpet is placed in a slatted cage or tumbler, on the r0 tation of which the carpet is alternately lifted 3nd] allowed to fall, so as to shake out the Our invention consists of the combination, with such a cage, of a pivoted lifter, whereby the elevation of the carpet is effected with certainty, and the carpet is lifted to a greater height than when the usual rigid radial liftingbars are employed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a transverse section of our improved carpetcleaning machine; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same; Figs. 3, 4, and 5, diagrams illustrating the operation of the machine, and Fig. 6 a view showing a modification.

The slatted cage consists of the opposite rings A, connecting slats B, forming the periphery of the cage, and the radial ribs D and circular slats F, ,forn1ing the ends or heads of the same, the latter having opposite journalsa, which are adapted to bearings in pedestals b on the opposite edges of the pit G, in which the lower portion of the cage is contained, the rotation of the cage being effected, in the present instance, by means of a belt, d, adapted to one of the rings A and to a pulley,

f, ona counter-shaft, y, as shown in Fig. 1.

Hung to one of the radial ribs D of each head of the cage is a tilting-lifter, J, which, as shown in Fig. 1, consists of a slatted. box, although a plain flat platesuch as shown in Fig. 61nay, if desired, be used, and on each rib D, adjacent to the pivot of said lifter, is a lug, 1%, serving as a stop for the lifter, as described hereinafter.

The operation of the machine will be understood on reference to Figs. 3, 4., and 5, in which as represents the carpet. As the cage is rotated in the direction of the arrow, the lower edge of the pendent lifter (which occupies the position shown in Fig. 3) comes into contact with the pile of carpet, near one edge of the same, and as the lifter is prevented by the stop at from swinging backward it must be carried forward through thepile, aportion of the carpet being caught and held between the front end of the lifter and the bars B of the cage, but the bulk of the carpet being turned back over the lifter, and being carried up by the latter as it rises. (See Fig. 4.) The carpet is elevated until the parts reach the position shown in Fig. 5, when the weight of the carpet hanging upon the lifter is exerted to cause the latter to turn in the direction of the arrow, so as to release the carpet and permit it to fall to the bottom of the cage. By this means there is a definite lift and drop of the carpet on each rotation of the cage, and not simply a turning over and over of the pile of carpet in the bottom of the cage, as in those cleaners having inwardly projecting radial plates or shelves for acting upon the carpet. By making the lifter J in the form of a slatted box air is carried into the midst of the mass of carpet as the latter is raised by the lifter, and the dust and dirt are more rapidly driven out of the carpet than when the lifter consists of a simple flat plate.

WVe claim as our invention- 1. The combination, in a carpet-cleaning machine, of a slatted cage, and means, substantially as described, for rotating the same, with a lifter pivoted at its inner end to said cage, and a stop located in the rear of said lifter, whereby the carpet is clamped between the free end of the lifter and the cage and carried to the top of the cage, the weight of the carpet then reversing thelifter, so as to permit the carpet to fall, as set forth.

2. The combination of a slatted cage, and

means, substantially as described, for rotating the same, with a slatted box pivoted to said cage at its inner end and combined with a stop in the rear, whereby it serves as a clamp and lifter, as specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. GESSLER. JOHN MOAFEE. WVitnesses:

J oHN M. CLAYTON, HARRY SMITH. 

